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HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *留* | 留* | *留
to leave (a message etc) / to retain / to stay / to remain / to keep / to preserve
HSK 2
to leave behind / to stay behind / to remain / to keep / not to let (sb) go
HSK 2
student studying abroad; returned student; foreign student; international student
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *畱* | 畱* | *畱
old variant of
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *㽞* | 㽞* | *㽞
old variant of
HSK 2
to study abroad
HSK 3
to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
HSK 3
to stay somewhere temporarily / to stop over
HSK 5
to leave a message; to leave one's comments / message
HSK 6
to remain; to be left over / residual; remnant / residue
HSK 7-9
to offer shelter; to have sb in one's care
HSK 7-9
(of a person) to remain in (a place) (due to circumstances that prevent one leaving); to be stranded / (of sth that would typically dissipate, e.g. floodwater, pollutants) to remain; to linger
HSK 7-9
to keep as a souvenir / to recall fondly
HSK 7-9
to leave behind / to hand down
HSK 7-9
to be careful; to pay attention to
HSK 7-9
to detain / to arrest / to hold / to confiscate
HSK 7-9
reluctant to leave / to hate to have to go / to recall fondly
HSK 7-9
to detain (a prisoner) / to keep sb in custody
HSK 7-9
to take care / to be careful
HSK 7-9
to be mindful / to pay attention to / to take note of
HSK 7-9
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department) (Tw)
gramophone / phonograph
permanent residency
residence permit
to keep / to preserve / extant / to remain (from the past)
residence / to reside
to ask sb to stay / to keep sb for the night / to await (classical)
to relent (to spare sb's feelings) / to show mercy or forgiveness / to forbear / lenient
right of abode (law)
(Tw) leave of absence without pay
to leave one's name / to leave one's mark
to leave sth for later / to postpone (work, a decision etc)
lit. start off leniently (idiom); please do not be too strict with me / Do not judge me too harshly. / Look favorably on my humble efforts.
visitor's book / CL:
to stay for a while; to sojourn
to repeat a year in school
to leave blank space in a document / to leave some time free
on one's deathbed / at the point of death
lit. not even chickens and dogs are spared (idiom) / fig. mass slaughter
Liuba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
to bequeath (to later generations) / a legacy
detention center / prison
to leave room to maneuver; to leave a margin for error
seriously ill and about to die
extemporaneous thoughts noted down after a visit
when a girl is of age, she must be married off (idiom)
to leave some leeway / to allow for the unpredictable
spearmint
leave of absence without pay
stationary front (meteorology)
to repeat a year in school
to keep stationed (of troops) / to remain as a garrison
(medicine) to remain in hospital under observation
to leave word / to leave a message
to leave oneself a way out
to urge to stay / to detain
retention (medicine)
Liuba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
to put some food aside for sb / to invite sb to stay for a meal / invitation to dinner
to make sth difficult / to create obstacles
going or staying
to leave the door unlocked for sb
to stay / to detain
Gongliu County or Toqquztara nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
to stay behind to take care of things
to stay for a long time
to put up a guest / to stay overnight
to stay for a long period
remaining / extant
to keep a copy / copy kept for archiving / to put aside a portion (of a money sum)
reserve price (in an auction) / (economics) reservation price
a departing gift / a souvenir on leaving / a poem to mark one's departure
Rurik (c. 830-879), Varangian chieftain of the Rus' people
Silurian (geological period 440-417m years ago)
Gongliu County or Toqquztara nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
to leave loose ends / to leave matters unresolved
(said by departing guest) no need to see me out
to take a photo as a souvenir / a souvenir photo
to keep a seed stock / seed held back for planting
a good reputation to last a hundred generations
hilly land allotted for private use
to hold back a trick / not to divulge all one's trade secrets
nonmigratory bird
to ask a guest to stay / to detain a guest
to leave in place; to set aside (for further use); to retain / to detain (a suspect or offender) / (medicine) indwelling
to remain in office; to hold on to one's job
to set aside / to reserve
Silurian system (geology) / see 志留紀|志留纪
to join the faculty of one's alma mater upon graduation / to remain at school during vacation
Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)
to keep for use / to retain sth / to keep sb in his job
(old) to study abroad / (sports) to train abroad
guestbook
variant of 劉海|刘海
private plot allocated to an individual on a collective farm
variant of 流連|流连
to retain a portion (of profits etc)
to stay / to stop over / to break one's journey
to show no quarter / ruthless / relentless

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